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The Dailies. Jan 5
Did you work on your language today? Create any new rules of grammar or syntax? New progress on a script? New words in you lexicon?
On the other hand, do any excavating or reading or enjoying stuff you've already created? Do you have any favorites to share?
How did you conlang today?




Working on turning this
into this 
sorry for the sideways picture. mobile is not Imzy friendly when it comes to getting a picture uploaded.
Technically, it was last night, but it was so late I'm calling to today: I decided to develop some terms to describe writing, basically I sketched a typographical primer. And then I decided to create a word referring specifically to the comforting warmth of directly touching another person's skin under the blankets on a cold day, and ended up with the (idiomatic) compound tozzeïčaṙl "loved one's warmth" (idiomatically; there's no possessive in the original), though I'm not completely happy with it. I'll quite possibly re-coin it.
I'll post another comment with a picture of the sketch.
Oooh. Love that word!
That's an absolutely lovely word!
Still on Beldreeni. I kept going through allitterations down the alphabet resulting in many more ridiculous sentences.
Now I'm re-reading my one document with the most syntax in it. There's quite a bit I've forgotten, it seems. I'm pretty sure at least some of the sample lines I've given here are - or will be - incorrect. (I've also realised that my very first sample sentences in this language don't quite fit with how it works after all and will need to be reworded.) I have such a hard time remembering syntax rules... and whenever things get slightly complicated in analysing, I tend to fall back on something close to the languages I know well: Swedish, English, and French (and to a much lesser degree German). It's hard to even look up how other languages do it when you haven't even identified the construction...
Three new words, though! The word for 'bronze' is shoma. The word for 'makes raids, attacks suddenly/furtively' is shomu. And the word for a raid or surprise attack is shosamu. In these more peaceful days, I think it tends to get used to mean 'prank' a lot. (Although I say peaceful, but the one type of organised violence on communities that still exist now and then are in fact short raids that flare up suddenly. Not all of those are carried out by bandits.)
Both shoma and shomu are very old words. Perhaps their similarities are just coincidence. Perhaps it comes from far in the past, when people still often used bronze weapons in battle. Or perhaps - and this is probably more likely - it has to do with beautiful bronze objects being seen as desirable loot to get through a raid, back in the violent past.
I know the feeling and still haven't unearthed my proper Tatan sentences. I could reconstruct, but I'd rather not screw it up spectacularly.
Love your words! I can get behind that etymology and just love the cultural notes. Very nice!